Demi Lovato isn't the only one kicking open the doors this weekend to the wide-ranging musical tastes offered and consumed by Hispanics.

Blackbird Sing — a homegrown Chicano Americana act whose name was inspired by Ryan Adams' “Mockingbirdsing” and the Beatles' “Blackbird” — is celebrating the release of its debut full-length album on Shiner Records at 502 Bar on Friday.

The O's from Dallas open. Admission costs $5. Blackbird Sing is expected to hit the stage around 10 p.m.

The new album is called “Enemies From Years of Loving.”

What started out as a solo project has become a real band that at times deliciously recalls Adams, the Gin Blossoms and the Old '97s.

The band is further evidence of a vibrant, burgeoning scene that has birthed a new generation — Hacienda, Girl in a Coma, Piñata Protest, D.T. Buffkin, Los Nahuatlatos, Nicolette Good, Phonolux and Gabriel Zavala, as well as upstarts the Zots and Elora Valdez & Gasoline Alley.

Not to mention brothers Emilio and Diego Navaira, Josh Baca of Los TexManiacs, as well as Joseph King, who is working on his first solo album.

Salinas, 38, a self-described control freak, admitted that the group's name wasn't a given. He originally wanted to call the group The Heirs of Bexar. His wife talked him out of it.

“Blackbird Sing worked a lot better,” Salinas said.

Also beneficial are the familial ties with his cousins (not so unlike the Beach Boys). “It was a very natural transition. The group was meant to be a solo project,” Salinas explained. “I started jamming out with them, and it felt very natural. We all grew up around music.”

The resulting alt-country, slightly grunge and chiming folk music is appealing and feels familiar; if not quite a mid-'90s revival, it's close.

“It's hard to describe,” Salinas said. “We don't like to say, 'Oh, we have this very original sound.' But we feel it's a unique sound. Totally. We get that a lot. People will say it's very familiar but hard to place.”

The singer-songwriter draws on Chicano soul but acknowledged that the Tex-Mex influences are more in the DNA than evident on the band's first true album.

“It hasn't really affected our sound as much as it affects people that see us. A lot of people tend to think that the sound that's gonna come out is different, just judging us on what we look like,” said Salinas.

“Like, 'That's weird. You guys are doing an Americana, folk-country thing. And you're Chicanos.' A lot of people say, 'Why don't you sing a song in Spanish?'

“We grew up hearing that music and are familiar with it. We just weren't that into it. It just wasn't our thing, and it's still not. I've always been into rock 'n' roll and punk rock and I love old country. It's very natural.”